Journal-box for railway-cars.



H. c. STICKEL. JOURNAL BOX FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24. 1915.

Patentedv Oct. 19, 1915.

INVENTOR,

ATTORNEY WITNESSES s'rfrEs JOURNAL-BOX FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

AApplication led March 24, 1915. Serial No. 16,658.

To all lwhom t may concern:l

practica y' tion of one end of a car st .lift the truck by Be it known that I, HARRY C. S'rroxrir.,-

a citizen of the United States, residing at Star Junction, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsy vania, have invented a new and useful ,Journal-Box for Railway-Cars, ofwhich the fbllowing isa specification.

This invention has reference to journal boxes. for railway cars and its object is to provide a box locked to the truck frame in a manner permitting removal of the wheels or replacing brasses without the use of any tools except a lifting jack.

In accordance with the present invention the truck frame is provided with a recess for receiving thejournal box, whichrecess has guiding webs, while the box is formed with interior hollow lugs and guiding ribs servingto hold the box .and frame against displacement in any direction except that 1tOhe frame may be lifted away from the The journal structure is provided with a bearing brassand with a wedge for holding the brass in place and in conjunction with the wedge there is provided a key which when the parts are assembled effectively locks the wedge in place vand the latter in turn locks the brass in place, so that the parts retain their proper positions without the presence of bolts or other like fastening devices. In order to remove the wheels or replace the brasses, it is only necessary to means'y of a suitable jack, whereupon the box is lifted -suiiciently so that the wedge can be removed and then the brass and the key may be removed in order. After this the box is in condition for `ready removal from'the journal end of the axle.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with drawings forming part of this specification, with the further understandin that while the drawings show a form of the invention the latter is not confined to ,any strict conformity with the showingof the drawings, but may be changed 'and modified so long ,as such changes and modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention. v

In the drawings :4i-Figure 1 is an 'elevatruck showing the plied thereto. Fig. 2is a the accompanying improvement a section on the e 2-2 of Fig. 1, the car against movement wheel and axle being shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 with some parts shown in elevation. Fig. 4 is an elevation of one end of the truck with the journal box removed. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig.3. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the box. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the key. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the wedge. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the brass.

Referring to the drawlngs, there is shown a portion of a car .truck frame 1 and there is also shown a car wheelv 2 having -an axle 3 with the usuaLjournal extension 4.

The truck 1 is indicated as of web and flange construction, but this particular form is not obligatory for the purposes of the present invention. The ends of the truck 1 where provided with journal boxes have each a recess 5 open at the bottom and bordered by flanges 6. These flanges together form a relatively broad bearing face 7 and projecting from the mid point of each face 7 toward the companion face is 'a web or rib 8 standing upright in the ordinary working position of the parts andlocated within the space 5. Each web 8 has a rounded lower end 9 and near the upper end has a notch or recess 10.

Adapted to the recess 5 is a journal box 11 which in general shape may correspond to ordinary journal boxes for the journals of car wheels. The box 11, however, is provided on opposite faces and the top with parallel ribs 12 spaced to receive between them the anges 7 and intermediate of the ribs 12, but on theyinner faces of the side walls of the box 11, there are formed lugs or housings 13 each with a longitudinal channel shaped to receive a corresponding web 8. Each rib or housing 13 immediately below the. top of the box has a passage 14 therethrough matching a corresponding notch 10 in the webbing. The ribs 12 at the sides of the box 11 stop short tom wall of the box and are there joined by a cross rib 12El which abuts the bottom of the truck frame 1 where'formed with the ment of the boxes into the recesses 5 or the,`

of the botmovement of the truck frame upon the"` boxes,

thereby firmly locked to the truck frame as the case may. be, and each box 'is in any direction exceptan up and down direction. There is also provided a brass 14a such as is customarily employed, this brass engaging the reduced portion 4a of the journal extension 4 of the axle, such reduced portion being customary in car axles. The brass is formed at one end with an'upstanding flange 15 and at the other end with side lugs 16 and the parts are so proportioned that when thebrass is applied to the reduced portion 4a of the journal axle the lugs 16'reach to or approximately to the housings 13 andthe flange 15 upstands at the inner or rear portion of the reduced portion of the journal. Applied to the top of the brass is a wedge 17 having a longitudinally outstanding lip 18 at one end. The wedge is of a length-4 to abut at the end remote from the4 lip 18 against the flange 15, the lip 18 being toward the front end of the journal box 11.

The top of the journal box has formed at the front end a depending rib 19 and the extreme front of the box is open as is customary, the bottom wall of the box upturning as shown at 20 in the usual manner.

The box is provided with the usual hinge lug 21 to which a door or cover 22 is connected by a pintle 23 so as to normally close the front end of the box. f

When the box is applied to the journal 4 the brass 14a rests upon the-journal, the wedge 17 is applied to the brass, and then between the top of the box and the wedge there is inserted a broad key v24 having a front depending lip 25 adapted to engage over the front-'edge of the lip .18 of the wedge 17. The key is as lwide as or substantially as wide as the interior of the box and is adapted to extend through the passages 14 into channels 26 formed in the hollow lugs or housings 13, which channels receive the webs 8 and the partsare so proportioned that the key then enters Vthe notches 10, thus locking the box to the truck frame 1 through the webs 8.

The rear end of the box need not be in one piece with the rest of the box, butl can be and preferably is in the form of a plate 27 seated in grooves deiined by parallel flanges 28 formed about the rear end of the box within the latter. The plate 27 which constitutes a dust guard has formed through it a suitable passage 29V for the journal end 4 of the car wheel axle. With the structure described the parts when assembled are all in locked relation, the key 24 constituting the locking member and the partsv cannot become separated `under ordinary conditions of use.

When it is desired to replace a brass or to renew the car wheels, or to perform some other such operation, the truck is jacked up, which movement is sulcient to lift the key enough to release the wedge, the wedge and brass remaining in position on the journal extension 4 without rising with the box. The lifting of the box need be but a brass 14 from the reduced end of the journal f 4 and since the parts do not ordinarily make a close fit the key 24 is then readily removed from engaging relation with the notches 10.y

As soon as the key 24 is removed a further lifting of the truck 1 will carry it 'entirely above the box and the opening 29 being of sufficient siz/e the box is then readily re-\ moved from the iournal extension 4.

VVhem it is not necessary to remove the boxes from-the axles, but it is only desired to renow the brasses, the truck may be jacked up as before, so that the key is raised sufficiently to release the wedge, whereupon the latter may be removed, .and then the parts taken out and replaced by a new brass, after which the wedge is returned and the parts are once more dropped to the first position where the weight of the car and truck is sufficient to hold the parts in the locked position.

The box 11 is when in use suppliedwith waste 30 for retaining lubricant, this waste being taken as typical of any lubricant carrying material.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a car truck having a seat therein, of a journal box adapted to said seat, a brass and wedge adapted to the journal'box, and a key adapted tov engage the wedge and hold itin the box, said box and truck being coactively formed for the reception of the key to be locked'together by said key, with the latter locking the wedge and brass to the journal of a car ax e.

2. The combination with a car truck frame having a seating recess therein with opposed internal webs each with a notch near one end, of a box having internal housings exteriorly channeled to receive the webs, said housings each having a passage and a lcorresponding web having a corresponding notch, the brass and wedge adapted to the interior of the box and to the journal 'of a car axle, and a key adapted to the interior of the box and related to the passages through the housings and the notches in the webs of the truck frame to extend through said passages into said notches to lock the box to the truck frame and to lock the wedge and brass to the journal.

3. The combination with a truck frame and a journal box adapted thereto and pro interior of the boxv with the vsaid box and posed interior webs on opposite sides of the' recess and the latter opening downwardly in the normal position of the parts, of a journal box having interior housings with exterior channels for receiving the webs, a brass with side lugs for engaglng the housings, a wedge provided with a lip at one end and adapted to rest upon the brass, and a key having a lip at one end adapted to engage the lip on the wedge, the housings within the box being provided withpassages therethrough and the webs in the recess o the truck frame having notches therein and the key being of a width to extend through the passages in the housings and enter the notches in the webs, whereby the wedge is held to the brass by the key and ilhe box is locked to the truck frame by the 5. The combination with a car truck frame and journal box in yremovable relation to the car truck frame, of journal bearings for the journal of a car axle adapted to the box, and a key for holding the journal bearings in the box to the car axle journal, said key, boxA and truck frame being coactively constructed and arranged' to Vlock the journal boxto'the frame.

6. The combination with a car truck frame having a recess with interior opposed upright webs each with a notch near the upper end, of a journal box having interior lugs or housingswith exterior channels for receiving the webs of the car truck and said lugs or housings havlng passages therethrough matching the notches of the truck frame, said box also having in the webs exterior ribs delining channels for the reception of corresponding portions of the side -walls of the recess in the truck frame, a journal brass and wedge adapted to the interior of the box with the wedge provided with a longitudinally extended lip at one end, and a key having an angle lip adapted to engage the lip on the wedge and said key being of a width to extend through the passages in the housings in the box `and into the notches in the upright webs in the recess of the truck frame.

7 The combination with a car truck frame having a recess with interior opposed upright webs, each with a notch near the upper end, of a journal box having interior lugs or housings with exterior channels for receiving the webs of the car truck and said lugs or housings having passages therethrough matching the notches in the webs of the truck frame, said box also having exterior ribs defining channels for the reception of corresponding portions of the side walls of the recess in the truck frame, a journal brass and wedge adapted to the interior of the box with the wedge provided with a longitudinally extended lip at one end, and a key having an angle lip adapted to engage the lip on the wedge and said key being of a width to extend through the passages in the housings in the box and into the notches in the upright webs in the recess in the truck frame, the box being also provided with a rib or flange in the path of the lipped end of the key when lodged in tho box in locking relation to the parts with which it coacts.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY C. STICKEL. Witnesses:

JoBE R. MARTIN, MATTHEW W. BYERS. 

